Getting started with #Exasol

One nice and easy way to make yourself familiar with Exasol – the leading In-Memory Analytic Database – is the Community Edition. It’s free and can be downloaded here as a virtual machine running on VirtualBox.

A good description how to install the Community Edition can be found here.

There’s an Exasol SQL Client called EXAplus. You can use it as GUI, then it looks like this:

A command line version of EXAplus is also available. I will use it for my articles subsequently because it works better than pictures from the GUI for that purpose. You will be able to copy & paste commands from the article that way, for example. If you install the Community Edition on a Windows host like I did, you get to the command line EXAplus this way: Open a cmd shell. Then